Dhammapada 8.3.p9

8.3.p9

‘‘Na hi sabbesu ṭhānesu, puriso hoti paṇḍito;
Itthīpi paṇḍitā hoti, tattha tattha vicakkhaṇā’’ti. (apa. therī 2.3.31);

Wisdom is not always confined to men; A woman, too, is wise, and shows it now and then. Having thrown the robber over the cliff, the woman thought to herself, “If I go home, they will ask me, ‘Where is your husband?’ and if, in answer to their question, I say, ‘I have killed him,’ they will pierce me with the knives of their tongues, saying, ‘We ransomed the scoundrel with a thousand pieces of money and now you have killed him.’ If, on the other hand, I say, ‘He sought to kill me for my jewels,’ they will not believe me. I’m done with home!” She cast off her jewels, went into the forest, and after wandering about for a time came to a certain hermitage of nuns. She reverently bowed and said, “Sister, receive me into your Order as a nun.” So they received her as a nun.